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The Upcoming Crunchbits Charity Event: We Don't Have All the Details Yet But It Sounds Extremely Cool!

Community provider Crunchbits is organizing a community-wide charity event on LowEndTalk, to be launched later this month.  It's shaping up to be a big event in our community and we plan to promote it to the hilt.  Rewards for those who donate, publicity for participating hosts, and a lot of money going to a worthy cause.  We don't have all the details yet, but we got a head's up and permission to share a teaser with you. 

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The Upcoming Crunchbits Charity Event: We Don't Have All the Details Yet But It Sounds Extremely Cool!

Habemus Papam! Welcome, Pope Leo XIV. BTW, Does the Vatican Have a Datacenter? (Yes - Pics Inside)

Pope Leo XIV is here! Let's take a quick peek at the Vatican's datacenter and online presence.

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Habemus Papam!  Welcome, Pope Leo XIV.  BTW, Does the Vatican Have a Datacenter? (Yes - Pics Inside)

IP-Projects: Seven Special Cheap VPS Offers for Our Readers in Frankfurt, Germany!

Welcome, IP-Projects!  They're new to our platform but not new to the hosting industry.  They're  a German firm that's been in business since 2007. They're bringing us seven different offers, each tuned to a different need, but they all have one thing in common: great value for our readers!

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IP-Projects: Seven Special Cheap VPS Offers for Our Readers in Frankfurt, Germany!

Servitro: Dollar-a-Month VPS Offer in Germany, Plus Deeply-Discounted Ryzens!

Welcome back, Servitro!  They're a UK-based provider who is bringing us a dollar-a-month VPS offer today.  Incredible! If you want something speedier, they also have deeply discounted 4GB Ryzen offers, too.

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Servitro: Dollar-a-Month VPS Offer in Germany, Plus Deeply-Discounted Ryzens!

Are Some People Allergic to Wi-Fi?

Do some people develop serious illnesses when exposed to the electromagnetic fields that Wi-Fi routers, cell phones, and other modern devices emit? According to believers, exposure to WiFi, cell phones, and other electromagnetic fields (EMFs) can cause nausea, fatigue, headaches, skin rashes, memory problems, and more.

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Are Some People Allergic to Wi-Fi?

WORLDBUS May Sale: 50% Off All VPS Plans in Tbilsi, Georgia!

WORLDBUS is offering a limited-time 50% discount on all VPS plans located in Tbilisi, Georgia – exclusively for the LowEnd community!

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WORLDBUS May Sale: 50% Off All VPS Plans in Tbilsi, Georgia!

MangoMail: Spring Sale Is Now Live, Offering 3 Months FREE With Any Signup Between Now and May 31st!

Some providers roll from one seemingly never-ending sale to the next, but that's' not how Mango Mail does business.  Their mode is to provide high quality service at a fair price.  So when they announce a sale, it's worth investigating because you're truly getting a deal on something that is already an attractive bargain.

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MangoMail: Spring Sale Is Now Live, Offering 3 Months FREE With Any Signup Between Now and May 31st!

A $1,000 Gift May Be Landing In Your Backyard, Courtesy of the Soviet Union

The Soviet Union may drop a space egg worth $1,000 in your backyard in mid-May. Let's look at the odds and

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A $1,000 Gift May Be Landing In Your Backyard, Courtesy of the Soviet Union

DataIdeas Closing Shop! Unexpected Shutdown of a Good Provider

Sad news: DataIdeas is closing shop, after five years in our community. They're doing it the right way, with proper options for customers.

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DataIdeas Closing Shop!  Unexpected Shutdown of a Good Provider

The Uncharitable Website About Charity Host: The Scandal Escalates

The CharityHost story just keeps going. There's been a half-dozen lengthy threads on LowEndTalk and now there's a site setup to consolidate all the scandal information.

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The Uncharitable Website About Charity Host: The Scandal Escalates

EvoShield: Powerful Remote DDoS Protection with Key Innovations!

We've featured Evolution Host many times in the past.  Longtime readers will remember that they've often offered service for free to users with high traffic sites who are willing to cross-promote. Today, we're sharing their newest service: EvoShield Remote DDoS Protection, a new and innovative protection service.

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EvoShield: Powerful Remote DDoS Protection with Key Innovations!

LowEndBoxTV: FASTER CORES vs MORE CORES? Is Ryzen 3x the Speed of Epyc for WordPress?

What's really better for WordPress: faster cores or more cores? Did you know there are some situations where Ryzen can be 3x faster for serving WordPress? Piotr does a deep dive for us, modeling WordPress performance using a homegrown benchmarking plugin, and puts myths to rest with hard data.

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LowEndBoxTV: FASTER CORES vs MORE CORES?  Is Ryzen 3x the Speed of Epyc for WordPress?

Welcome, Velohost: Cheap VPS Offers in Düsseldorf, Germany From a New Provider!

They're a new-ish host based in Germany, and they have great pricing on cheap VPS systems in Düsseldorf.  This is their first time on LowEndBox. 

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Welcome, Velohost: Cheap VPS Offers in Düsseldorf, Germany From a New Provider!

Hostiger: Amazing High RAM VPS Offers in Istanbul - Get a 32GB RAM VPS for Only $5/mo First Month, $10/mo Recurring!

32GB RAM for $5 first month! Wow! That's pretty amazing, and that's what Hostiger has for you in Istanbul.

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Hostiger: Amazing High RAM VPS Offers in Istanbul - Get a 32GB RAM VPS for Only $5/mo First Month, $10/mo Recurring!

Piotr Returns: Is Coolify the "Sweet Spot" Between Heroku/Vercel and a Self-Hosted VPS?

Services such as Vercel and Heroku provide an easy on-ramp to hosting your app, but they come at very premium prices. The alternative is to roll your own infrastructure with a self-hosted VPS, but this is starting from scratch and you sacrifice a lot of speed in getting your app to market. Coolify is a nice middle-ground between these two extremes.

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Piotr Returns: Is Coolify the

Exotic Locations: Where the Datacenters are, from a LowEnd Perspective

What is an "exotic" geography? One in which there are few datacenters and few offers. One LowEndTalk member has proposed categories, and it's pretty accurate.

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Exotic Locations: Where the Datacenters are, from a LowEnd Perspective

First Offer! Pulsar67 Has a Cheap VPS for You in Tampa, Florida Starting at $1.25/Month!

Pulsar67 has posted their first offer on LowEndTalk, and it's pretty cool! Get a cheap VPS in Tampa, Florida for as low as $1.25/month, and there are several bonuses to choose from.

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First Offer!  Pulsar67 Has a Cheap VPS for You in Tampa, Florida Starting at $1.25/Month!

Recent Drama: The Ethics of Scanning Hosted Files

If you put something in private FTP space and the provider flags it as a violation of their AUP, is that an invasion of your privacy? The community seems to think so and doesn't like it.

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Recent Drama: The Ethics of Scanning Hosted Files

The LowEndTalk Member Who Lost $4,100 on "Lifetime" Hosting Deals: A Cautionary Tale

Recently I exchanged PMs with a LowEndTalk member who lost $4,100 on lifetime offers. Are those kinds of offers safe? A scam? How should you think about them?

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The LowEndTalk Member Who Lost $4,100 on

Happy Easter 2025 From LowEndBox!

Happy Easter from LowEndBox!

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Happy Easter 2025 From LowEndBox!

VisualWebTechnologies: Cheap VPS in Los Angeles! 4GB VPS for only $8/Month and They're Proud of Their YABS!

Great offer today from VisualWebTechnologies. If you're looking for a cheap VPS in Los Angeles with lots of resources for a low prices, this is one to look at!

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VisualWebTechnologies: Cheap VPS in Los Angeles!  4GB VPS for only $8/Month and They're Proud of Their YABS!

ColoCrossing Special Offers: 40TB of Bandwidth on Dedicated Servers From $30/Month and Cheap VPSes, Plus Colo Offers!

Quite a lot on our plates today as we look at this spread of offers from ColoCrossing - cheap dedicated servers, cheap VPS, and cheap colocation services! Available in Buffalo, Chicago, Dallas, or Los Angeles, depending on the offer. And everything comes with a colossal 40TB of bandwidth!

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ColoCrossing Special Offers: 40TB of Bandwidth on Dedicated Servers From $30/Month and Cheap VPSes, Plus Colo Offers!

Five Times When Updating Your OS Would Have Saved You From Being Hacked

Every checklist you've ever seen for securing your VPS includes "update your system regularly".  But is that one of those "best practices" that is more theoretical than a real-world necessity? To be honest, it's easy to not get around to running "apt update && apt upgrade".  In my experience, at least with Debian, updates rarely break things but it's always a small risk.  Nevertheless, it requires remembering to do it, spending the commands run, maybe rebooting, etc. Unfortunately, history has shown time and time again that skipping OS updates can leave even the best admins wide open to disaster. 

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Five Times When Updating Your OS Would Have Saved You From Being Hacked

How Big Can Tiny microSD Cards Get? Limits, Physics, and the Road Ahead

Last week I was preparing for a long plane ride.  I grabbed my preferred travel video player - an Amazon Kindle Fire, which has a handy microSD port - and dug out a fingernail-sized piece of storage media to insert.  It occurred to me that this tiny centimeter-sized slab of plastic and silicon holds more data (1TB) than the entirety of the first datacenter I worked in back in the early 90s. What does the future portend for this popular format?

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How Big Can Tiny microSD Cards Get? Limits, Physics, and the Road Ahead

Beancount: Lightweight FOSS Double-Entry Accounting...from the Command Line!

Beancount is a neat FOSS project with a simple concept: full double-entry accounting from the command line. It's a very simple idea, well-implemented, with some neat add-on tools.

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Beancount: Lightweight FOSS Double-Entry Accounting...from the Command Line!

Ten Countries That Turned Their TLDs Into Gold (And Which Are Cheapest For You)

When the internet was first taking shape, the idea of country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) was simple: give every nation its own digital space. What no one expected was that some countries would find themselves sitting on virtual gold mines — not from their native users, but from clever marketers and businesses around the world who saw these two-letter domains as branding shortcuts.

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Ten Countries That Turned Their TLDs Into Gold (And Which Are Cheapest For You)

VeloxMedia's Crazy Offer: Three VPS Bundle for £15/mo, Plus Other Cool BOGO Offers!

Not only does VeloxMedia have a Buy One, Get One FREE deal on their cheap VPS offerings, but they also have a cool 2GB/4GB/8GB cluster for you to consider! Lots of interesting stuff in these offers, which are available in Seattle, California, and London.

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VeloxMedia's Crazy Offer: Three VPS Bundle for £15/mo, Plus Other Cool BOGO Offers!

The Man Who Was Paid €113,000 For His Code Which Compressed Entire Movies in 8KB of Disk...And Then He Died

Imagine if you could encode any HD movie down to 8KB. That's what Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot promised the world back in 1999, and he pocketed a nice check from investors to make it work. Alas, he died shortly thereafter. Was he on to something?

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The Man Who Was Paid €113,000 For His Code Which Compressed Entire Movies in 8KB of Disk...And Then He Died
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